Wordsifter Activity!
1. Find a Poem online. Copy and paste it into Wordsifter. Create a Word Cloud. Look up any words you don't know through the word sift tool.
Listening Booth Listen to more than 300 audio clips from the Academy of American Poets, including "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, both read by the authors
The American Verse Project The American Verse Project from the University of Michigan is an electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
Bartleby Library Includes online editions of poetry by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, as well as Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer and The Oxford Book of English Verse.
The Borzoi Reader Poem-a-day Browse their collection of poetry books, learn more about their authors, and read exerpts from their works. From Knopf Publishing Group. And you can also sign up for their year-round Poem-A-Day at Daily Lit.
Canadian Poetry Information on Canadian poets from the University of Toronto English Library
Cowboy Poetry.com Read and celebrate classic cowboy and western poetry during Cowboy Poetry Week, April 17-23rd, 2011.
Favorite Poem Project Includes a collection of videos you can view online of people reading their favorite poems and talking about themselves.
Modern American Poetry An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Cary Nelson.
Poetry Daily Poetry Daily is an online anthology of contemporary poetry published by the nonprofit Daily Poetry Association
Poetry FoundationFeatures a Poem of the Day as well as a "Poetry Tool" for searching for poems and poets.
Poetry Slam Inc. An organization that promotes performance poetry, especially through its National Poetry Slam.
Writer's Almanac Listen to this short daily Public Radio program by Garrison Keillor. Includes a selected poem and literary and historical notes for the day. Available is also an archive of programs.
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Wordsifter Activity!
1. Find a Poem online. Copy and paste it into Wordsifter. Create a Word Cloud. Look up any words you don't know through the word sift tool.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/seuss-silverstein-posing-questions-283.html
The below are several links that you can use as resources for your Poetry Project
The Academy of American Poets
Use this site to find a Poet or Poem.
- Poem Flow Got an iPhone? Get this poetry app!!
- Listening Booth Listen to more than 300 audio clips from the Academy of American Poets, including "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, both read by the authors
- The American Verse Project The American Verse Project from the University of Michigan is an electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
- Bartleby Library Includes online editions of poetry by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, as well as Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer and The Oxford Book of English Verse.
- The Borzoi Reader Poem-a-day Browse their collection of poetry books, learn more about their authors, and read exerpts from their works. From Knopf Publishing Group. And you can also sign up for their year-round Poem-A-Day at Daily Lit.
- Canadian Poetry Information on Canadian poets from the University of Toronto English Library
- Cowboy Poetry.com Read and celebrate classic cowboy and western poetry during Cowboy Poetry Week, April 17-23rd, 2011.
- Favorite Poem Project Includes a collection of videos you can view online of people reading their favorite poems and talking about themselves.
- Library of Congress: Poetry 180: A poem a day for American High Schools Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year.
- Modern American Poetry An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Cary Nelson.
- Poetry Daily Poetry Daily is an online anthology of contemporary poetry published by the nonprofit Daily Poetry Association
- Poetry FoundationFeatures a Poem of the Day as well as a "Poetry Tool" for searching for poems and poets.
- Poetry Magazine
- App for the iPhone - Take poetry with you!
- Poetry Slam Inc. An organization that promotes performance poetry, especially through its National Poetry Slam.
- Writer's Almanac Listen to this short daily Public Radio program by Garrison Keillor. Includes a selected poem and literary and historical notes for the day. Available is also an archive of programs.
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